Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice of works was undoubtedly a handicap to the orchestra in the first place. The major work, Haydn's Symphony No. 44 in e minor, is not one of his happiest compositions, being almost devoid of humor or lightness. The orchestra was having problems of intonation, and not until the last movement did they relax and play freely. By that time, the nervousness and tension which dominated the first half of the program began to wear off, and both the tone and the ensemble work improved noticeably...
...ranks of the Bauhaus. If this is German art, it is German in the sense that it pursues the kind of gentle lyricism which illuminates the music of Haydn, and in that it follows the path of classical rectitude which soars so in Bach. Happily, these works are devoid of the more histrionic and sentimental aspects of Teutonic picture making which plagued so many of Feininger's contemporaries. Feininger's concern is to sing rather than to cry out. The effect, in a painter, is becoming...
...conference to the Student Council, they listed three major criticisms of the organization: 1.) the representatives do not represent the views of their student bodies and are therefore not qualified to vote on their behalf on national or political issues; 2.) the resolutions passed by delegates were generally devoid of substance and fact; and 3.) the problems presented are not those with which the Harvard community is concerned...
...many Americans agreed with Robertson that the U.S. exhibit was a 'hodgepodge devoid of any recognizable theme. The British exhibit, for example, contrasted the symbols of Britain's imperial past with her present progress in science and technology; the Dutch exhibit showed how a thrifty nation wrested land from the sea to become a prosperous agricultural and seafaring power; the Israel exhibit showed how a hardy breed of men created a nation in the desert after centuries of persecution; and even the boastful Russians blended exhibits of Sputnik, industrial machinery and imitative consumer goods to overplay the Soviets...
...thought of losing 68-year-old Nehru, who has allowed no one to grow up in his shadow, and whose national prestige, if slipping a little, is still immense. By acclamation they rushed through a resolution declaring that the Congress Party "categorically refuses to contemplate any period devoid of Nehru's continued leadership." But Nehru was standing firm. He scolded the party members for their action: "You do not do me any credit. It will mean that I have acted casually and you have also acted casually." A deep feeling had been rising in him, Nehru said, "that something...